Adding bullet points to a text area?

Question

Is there a way to add bullet points to an HTML textarea?

I want to add a simple feature where a bullet point is added for every line in a text area (similar to a list bu

Answer 1

Just use the hexidecimal unicode value: \u2022 . So you might add bullets to new lines in this manner:

$textarea.val($textarea.val().replace(/\n/g,"\n\u2022").replace(/\r/g,"\r\u2022"))